Joinery And Building Trades Award 2010 - cfmeu

(b) Meal allowance
An employee required to work overtime for at least one and a half hours
after working ordinary hours must be paid by the employer an amount
of $11.90 extra to meet the cost of a meal, except as provided for in
clause 24.5(a).
(c) Employee protection allowance
(i) An employer must reimburse an employee for the cost of
purchasing the following protective equipment or provide such
protective equipment:
one apron per year for an employee operating flexible drive
polishing machines;
suitable protective clothing or footwear for an employee
engaged on stonemasonry work; and
suitable protective clothing and footwear for an employee
engaged on glass and glazing work.
(ii) An employer must reimburse an employee engaged on
stonemasonry work for the cost of an x-ray for silicosis once in
each period of six months, if the employee so requires. Such an xray
may be taken during working hours and count as time worked.
(iii) When an employer requires an employee to wear spectacles with
toughened glass lenses, the employer must pay for the cost of the
toughening process.
(d) Compensation for clothing and tools
Joinery & Building Trades Award 2010
(i) An employee whose clothes, spectacles, hearing aids or tools have
been accidentally spoilt by acid, sulphur or other deleterious
substances must be paid compensation by the employer to the
extent necessary to cover the loss.
(ii) An employee must be reimbursed by the employer to a maximum
of $1495.00 for the loss of tools or clothes, by fire or breaking
and entering, which were securely stored at the employer’s
direction in a room or building on the employer’s premises, job or
workshop or in a lock-up or if the tools are accidentally lost over
water or if the tools are lost or stolen during an employee’s
absence after leaving the job because of injury or illness. Such
reimbursement is subject to the following:
an employee transporting their own tools must take all
reasonable care to protect those tools and prevent loss or theft;
only tools used by the employee in the course of employment
are covered;
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